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Returning Premiership giants, Newcastle United, are offering Nigerian whizkid, Henry Onyekuru, the sum of £36,000 per week to join them. Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund are also keen to sign the Super Eagles goal poacher, who has insisted he will NOT sit on the bench for any club, and that any deal must come with the agreement of regular first team play.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/814829/Newcastle-United-Henry-Onyekuru-Arsenal-Transfer-News-Gossip

Henry Onyekuru
https://www.soccerassembly.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Henry-Onyekuru-10th-goal.jpg

Meanwhile Saudi Arabia are the US' close allies. Go figure.

Very good. If Wenger is gonna put him on the bench he should just not go there.

That boy is just too good to be on any bench, even for Real Madrid.

Mustay:
See this:



If the professional certification was NOT a necessary requirement/standard for the post, no problem. Nonetheless, there is still a bias by the OP as he spent 30 minutes chatting and 5 minutes doing the actual work which is why it is better to avoid such situations - you won't treat them objectively because of your bias.

In such threads, I am not perturbed by those who (and this is not referring to you chiscodedon) insult you or tell you that "na baba God", "who professionalism epp", "u fit do am if na your bro?", "get rich or die poor" and the likes. Recently, someone's incident has shown us how even criminals will pose with exotic items generated from fraudulent income and still say "Baba God, u don do am for your boys".

What you are seeing here is a SOCIETY THAT HAS COME TO ACCEPT CORRUPTION AS NORMAL. Religion and other bases are just the manipulative thoughts to justify the wrong. Ironically, these people will blame politicians and leaders alike for favoring their lot while they cannot avoid what they condemn. Like they say, it is easy to throw stones when you are outside the glass house.

I am putting this out there so that some people (especially younger ones) are not misguided and really, I am not even moved or disturbed by differences in opinions - SAYING IT AS IT IS. He has given a context and provided basis for his decision. Imagine the other guys reading this and in their minds, like NL job seekers, they believe nothing works in Nigeria because they are qualified for certain jobs but are never picked as a result of favoritism.

We all have different moral codes and let yours guide you - to each his own. Good luck manson5011

MY BROTHA, YOU ARE RIGHT. I EVEN VOTED IN FAVOUR OF WHAT THE GUY DID. But if we look at it objectively, it points to the issue of corruption in society.

Sentimentality is a huge factor in corruption, especially when it comes to relatives, friends etc getting undeserved favours. The 500 likes for what the guy did, shows we have serious problems in this country in terms of our attitudes to probity and professional integrity, so vital to catapaulting the nation to the next level. I think the best we can hope for is a reduction in corruption, not an elimination. Not with our mindset.

GrandGarcon:
Alex Ekubo went to Cameroon and gushed about the electricity supply there, you people abused him, some even said that he should develop kidney problem, you tell me you nigerams are humans! Here we are talking about real projects people can see and can use, in fact poeple are already USING it, you are here making noise about paper and white elephant projects. Was it today we began hearing of such projects in nigeria? I love how Ekubo puts it, big name wey dey kill small dog. Abegi go and have a seat.

Where and where did he go in Cameroun? We all know how you dummies visit the capitals of these small countries, where the govt spends 80% of its revenue on the main city while the rest of the country is neglected, and then assume the comforts of the capital are replicated throughout the country. And if, despite all you've read here, you still think the Nigerian railway network is not being implemented, it just shows you are an illiterate dunce unworthy of further attention.

If Yorubas lived in the Niger Delta, Ipob will consider them 'brothers' and include them in 'Biafra'. Anyone living in those oil and gas fields of the delta is a 'dear brother' to Ipob. If Hitler and the nazis were based there, Ipob would court them as their 'dear brothers', and invite them to form 'Biafra'.

fullstreets:
Because of the reasons u have given, dey have now been clothed with power to arrest at will, physically hurt innocent people, label u a criminal, get innocent people's pictures taken n put on display at the station, demand payment for bail n while paying, a person is faced by the notice "bail is free" then sign a declaration afterwards that nothing was collected from u for bail. I don't just know what to say to this ur post, I will just pray for u.

I will pray for you not to encounter armed robbers, so that no policeman would waste his precious life defending you.

By the way, can you tell us when last you were physically hurt and wrongly labelled a criminal by a police officer?

The great conspiracy theorist and author, David Icke said that whenever you see an incident, and you want to know who is responsible for it, ask yourself ''Who benefits from this occurrence?'' The answer to that question is usually the answer to who is responsible for the crime.

Since 9/11, the US has benefited immensely. They've invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and installed stooge regimes, and are still looking to take out Syria and Iran, all on the back of their proclaimed altruism and fighting terrorism.

Trump is a nasty racist knucklehead who can't understand why an Asian muslim should be elected Mayor of London. That's the only reason he attacked Mr Khan. Vile, worthless, ignorant dunce who calls himself the US president.

OP, have you any idea how many Nigerian Police officers have been killed and injured in shootouts against armed robbers in the last 30 years?

In other words, have you any idea how many Nigerian policemen have given their lives to protect you and your family, and keep you safe while you sleep like a baby at night?

Do you know it runs into thousands?

Do you know it is those underpaid policemen you scorn, that are the ones blocking armed robbers from raiding your house tonight?

Can you do what they do? Patrol the streets at 3am, often with sub-standard weapons, looking for armed robbers to confront?

Look, Mr Man, we can criticise the police all we want, but we must never ever ignore or downplay the fundamental service they render to us, and the huge sacrifices they make. For that we are grateful.

NotGej:
what credit? for the good roads or stable power supply? as hard as it is to believe, Nigeria is FIAKED*!! and we are not even ashamed of it.

Roads to and fro our ports/borders are in very very bad/ poor state. Travel more around the world to see.

Most countries ''around the world'' are developing nations like Nigeria. Most countries ''around the world'' are not like the US, UK, Germany, and Japan.

Most countries ''around the world'' are in the mould of places like Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Ecuador, Mali, Azerbajian, Nepal, Peru, Vietnam, Thailand, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Surinam, Mexico, Zambia, Jamaica, Yemen, Eritrea, Rwanda, Cuba, Trinidad, Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, Malawi, Cambodia, Mozambique, Chad, Bangladesh, Burundi, DR Congo, Uganda, Afghanistan, Madagascar, and India, among others. In these countries, which make up the world's majority, there are myriad development issues from power shortage to bad roads. That is the NORM in the world.

The EXCEPTIONS are those western countries most of you travel to when you claim to be going ''around the world'' - UK, US, Germany, Holland, France, UAE (Dubai). Less than 25% of the world's population live in those developed countries. Remember that next time you talk of going ''around the world'' and seeing El Dorado everywhere.

crestedaguiyi:
Idiot, so you killed 3m of my people because of oil.

Idiot, your leader killed 3 million of his people because of greed for oil.

It was because he wanted to steal the oil that made him so desperate to secede.

He was so desperate for the oil he risked millions of Igbo lives to fight a dumb and stupid war for which he had no weapons, no army, no airforce, and no navy.

When his plan failed, he hopped on a plane to the Ivory Coast and left you to your own devices.

edoyad:
And the point is, IT SHOULD. Kenya has a GDP that isn't up to that of Lagos, not to mention Nigeria that has 8 or 9 times the GDP of Kenya. No matter the effort these other countries are making, our size and available resources demand that we lead them when it comes to infrastructure and funding of projects.

We DO lead them. Kenya has only one or two serious airports, Nairobi and Mombasa.

KENYA AIRPORTS:

Mombasa Airport

https://www.kbctv.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Mombasa1.jpg

Nairobi Airport

https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/image/view/-/3844318/medRes/1586211/-/12x6ugpz/-/jkia.jpg


Nigeria has TOO MANY TO COUNT: Here's just a few:

Lagos Airport

https://poi.api.hotels.ng/poi/196/mur2.jpg-196-56ec0fd8cf5c4.jpg

Abuja Airport

https://authorityngr.com/app/views/images/uploads/2015_10_18_69178.jpg


Kano Airport

https://i.imgur.com/BmBGXb5.jpg


Bauchi Airport

https://i.imgur.com/0z4WCMB.jpg


Owerri Airport

https://i0.wp.com/www.faan.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Owerri-Airport.jpg?fit=1024%2C467


Warri Airport

https://poi.api.hotels.ng/poi/1734/2-1734-584581c6058d3.jpg


Calabar Airport

https://www.bizbilla.com/countrywise-airports/airport-image/calabar-margaret-ekpo-international-airport-nigeria-1.jpg


Ilorin Airport

https://i.imgur.com/obThx7M.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/wwC5EnQ.jpg

Asaba Airport

https://poi.api.hotels.ng/poi/538/asa9.jpg-538-572c67017faca.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/fJpYhAZ.jpg


Enugu Airport

https://radionigeriaenugu.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/14067508_318102761866629_2964346290906985655_n.jpg


MMA 2 Lagos

https://i.imgur.com/u3PxQ1h.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/9DZTm5H.jpg


Dutse Airport

https://www.thetrentonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Dutse-Airport.jpg


Kaduna Airport

[img]https://redconfidential.files./2017/03/vllkyt5kd7ioj46s7-f75383111.jpg[/img]


Benin Airport

https://i0.wp.com/www.faan.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Benin-Airport-Front.jpg?fit=1024%2C683


Yola Airport

https://oi61.tinypic.com/1z31fr6.jpg


THESE ARE JUST A FEW AIRPORTS IN NIGERIA. I MAKE BOLD TO SAY THAT NO NATION IN AFRICA OUTSIDE SOUTH AFRICA, EVEN REMOTELY COMPARES WITH NIGERIA IN TERMS OF INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING AIRPORT INFRASTRUCTURE.

Pavore9:
Sadly, a passport summarizes a Country! Travelled with a Ghanian to another African country, at the Airport was told to step aside with other Nigerians for "further clearance" while the Ghanian was given an easy passage!

That some Nigerians commit crimes abroad, which affects the country's reputation, doesn't mean you should have an inferiority complex, or it means the criminals have won, and you have lost.

I don't actually believe your story by the way.

Pavore9:
Kenya has only 2 cities? Bros, don't give info that can easily be disputed!

On that 472km stretch alone has 2 major Terminus (Nairobi and Mombasa, where the journey begins and end on that route), 7 intermediate stations and 23 passing stations!

Any place under 500,000 in population is a town or village in my book, not a city. Kenya has only TWO cities. Nairobi, Mombasa, finish. The rest are glorified villages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Kenya_by_population

owbabs:
I think the major point the OP is making is the quality of the train stations - Just like airports. Compare those with Kubwa train station.

If you have only two cities in your country like Kenya, you can build multimillion dollar palaces as their respective train stations. But if you are in Nigeria, which has hundreds of cities, you cannot. You need to be more modest so the infrastructure spreads round.

edoyad:
I'm from kaduna state so don't tell me about the kaduna - Abuja rail system. That was simply a political move, no more no less. The most pressing rail needs in Nigeria all involve moving in , out of or around Lagos state. Anything else is just wash.
The Kenyan rail project involves two of Kenya's most economically important regions, Nairobi and Mombasa. Pray tell me, do Abuja or Kaduna rank in the top 15 of Nigeria's most economically important cities ?

That you are from Kaduna means nothing. The Abuja-Kaduna network is a 200 km network llnking the federal capital with the nearest large city. The Lagos-Ibadan network construction has begun, as has the 1,500 km Lagos-Calabar route. They can't build them all at once just to satisfy you that they're not being ''political'' when they're deciding on which line to build prior to the other.

Pavore9:
Until Nigeria delivers that 10,000km high speed train and Nigerians travel through it, don't downplay other countries that have theirs running. For them, it will boost trade and tourism by delivery this phase 1 while construction is on going in phase 2.

The Kenya's is also built to convey 200 containers daily out of their Sea port in Mombasa.

I can similarly say that until Nigeria completes its 10,000 km rail network, for which construction has commenced, don't come online and rubbish the country, and downplay its ongoing progress.

Hbuyosh:
"Far bigger" is an exaggeration, unless u provide the evidence. Kenya is currently constructinf Konza and Tatu technological cities. Eko ke?

Konza what? I know about it. It is a VILLAGE PROJECT compared to Eko Atlantic. It's more similar to what smaller cities like Enugu, Port Harcourt, and Abuja, are doing in terms of 'new cities'. SPEND SOME TIME AND RESEARCH BEFORE COMMENTING. You are like many others here. Empty barrels who spew negativity in loud noise, but haven't the slightest clue what projects are being executed in Nigeria, and haven't the slightest inclination to research them.

rozayx5:
kenya is showing us real projects on ground


someone is asking us to google our rail projects like they are built online

Because you are shallow-minded and immature, so you prefer to see flashy train stations than to have a 10,000km high speed rail network under construction. The first is glamorous, the second not so much, since there are no flashy pictures to ''show''.

The latter would benefit the country more than the former. That's what's important. It might take years longer to build than a couple of flashy train stations, but we can wait.

common Tanzania i grew up in the 90s, they took light twice in 6 years.

Liar. Tanzania Power Cuts:

https://medium.com/power-africa/3-reasons-why-people-in-tanzania-are-going-off-grid-45acf135afab

http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/Tanzania-slides-into-12-hour-power-cuts/2558-1189160-view-printVersion-y0s5l4/index.html

rozayx5:
and your building a space station also


nonsense

Ignorant dunce. Go back to listening to music. Olodo.

edoyad:
We have been signing rail, mining , refinery , power and what not projects since the first tenure of Obasanjo, what tangible results do we have to show for all these ?
Apart from privately sponsored projects like those of Dangote, there's no assurance that the govt funded ones will be completed. Look at the River state monorail for example, it's turning out to be one of the whitest Elephant projects in this country's history

Use your brain. Go and research. Go and learn the meaning of PPP. Go and visit the Abuja-Kaduna network. Ply the trains. Stop using what happened 20 years ago as an excuse to be mentally lazy and unwilling to keep up with developments.

lestat:
I see
Lol
Ignorance

You can laugh out of ignorance. I had a Ugandan colleague once who could not understand the concept of visiting one's village, as we do in Nigeria. He said in Uganda, villages were destitute, abandoned regions where, once you leave, you never return. They use footpaths to enter villages there, he said. You will be lucky to see common soap to buy in rural areas there.

adde:
Nigeria has a fair share of Chinese investments. Railway and bridge construction in Lagos, Abuja - Kaduna etc. It is easy to borrow, paying back is the problem. China has perfected a way to keep Africa in perpetual slavery.

What slavery? Abeg make we hear word. The projects involving China have clear paths to ROI and repayments. The projects are designed to pay for themselves. Rail investment for instance. Go and research the terms of the contracts before making prejudiced assertions.

EzeUche:
Those spare parts seller probably work harder than you and contribute more wicked Nigeria than you.r

Now keep quiet.

That they work hard doesn't mean they know anything. My car mechanic works hard, but knows precious little about infrastructural development policy.

lestat:
My dear only f00ls don't know this.
I have been around alit and I can tell you Nigeria is one of the most under developed countries in Africa.
Hence most Asians are moving to Kenya

You are a bloody liar. Or you are ignorant. Move to those "developed" African countries nau, or did they refuse you visa?

EzeUche:
Will you keep quiet!

Let me say this again, since you are having a hard time understand.

THIS CAN NEVER HAPPEN IN NIGERIA IN A MILLION YEARS.

Thanks. Now return to your spare parts store. Do you know anything else? Dunce.

By the way, Eko Atlantic is a far bigger project than anything in Kenya. And it is happening LIVE

edoyad:
The Gowon generation failed by letting their peers then, countries like Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore leave them in the dust. Now this crop is failing us by letting Countries like Kenya leave us behind too.

We are making giant strides that will DWARF whatever Kenya is doing. Kenya has nothing as extensive and sophisticated as the current $12 billion Lagos-Calabar project.

We need to pay attention to what the govt is doing in terms of projects. There is a push towards infrastructural development. Trouble is people here spend so much time fighting ethnic battles, watching BBN, following celebrities, actresses etc, that they've no clue what the govt is doing, or what projects are going on on the ground.

letsbepieces:
Buhari have not done anything apart from carry our budget to london hospital, where he has a bed and breakfast.

He signed with China their biggest ever overseas contract with the $12 billion high speed Calabar-Lagos Rail network which will have 22 stations on the route.

Built2last:
Oga stop fooling yourself in delusion. Google rail projects in Nigeria. It's not the first time we are having such plans which only ends in paper.

You're talking rubbish. You have never seen ANY plan. The national rail network masterplan has started. It's not ''on paper''. The recently completed Abuja-Kaduna network is part of the plan. You can go there and enter the train, and stop at the various modern stations on the network. The ongoing Calabar-Lagos network is part of the national rail masterplan.

''A state-owned Chinese company has signed a $12 billion agreement with the Nigerian federal government to build a railway along Nigeria’s coast that is billed as China’s single largest overseas contract, the state media said on Thursday.

China Railway Construction Corp. Ltd. (CRCC) signed the official construction contract with the Nigerian government on Wednesday in Abuja, the Xinhua news agency said.

The Nigerian railway will stretch for 1,402 kilometres (871 miles) along the coast, linking Lagos, the financial capital of Africa’s largest economy and leading oil producer, and Calabar in the east, according to the report.

The $11.97 billion deal marks China’s largest single overseas contract project so far, it said, citing CRCC.''

http://www.aitonline.tv/post-chinese_firm_signs__12bn_deal_to_build_lagos_calabar_railway_line

The rail project you are hallucinating about is to be funded by the Chinese on lease. We are to provide 30% counterparts funding for them to do it. Nigeria does not have the money to meet up with the counterparts fund. We can only wish it happens. This administration has one year to go. Election starts next year and Nigeria will pause again. Alas, it's a circle of doom. Restructure this country and let every region build their region.

There you go talking rubbish through your anus. Are you the Central Bank governor, to know Nigeria ''does not have the money'' to pay its share?

Do you even know the road leading to the Central Bank or Federal Ministry of Finance?

juman:
Obasanjo spent more than one billion dollars on rail repairing without any tangible achievement.

The fact that you have to go all the way back to Obasanjo shows it is no longer business as usual, and that current govts are doing a better job.